<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sounds good to me. Presto is in.</font><br><br><br><table width=100%><tr valign=top><td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:</font><td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Ernest Brody" <epbrody@earthlink.net></font><tr valign=top><td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font><td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><martyfossen@yahoo.com>, <sonar@lists.wyc.org></font><tr valign=top><td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font><td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">06/27/2009 07:14 PM</font><tr valign=top><td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font><td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [Sonar] Thurs. 7/2, Who's up for
TEAM RACING PRACTICE/DRILLS?</font><tr valign=top><td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:</font><td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">sonar-bounces@lists.wyc.org</font></table><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="Arial">I’m in. I’ll go on
a boat or provide Sesame Street.</font><br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="Arial"> </font><br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="Arial">Ernest</font><br><font size=2 color=#004080 face="Arial"> </font><br><font size=2 face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> sonar-bounces@lists.wyc.org
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>martyfossen@yahoo.com<b><br>Sent:</b> Friday, June 26, 2009 9:03 PM<b><br>To:</b> sonar@lists.wyc.org<b><br>Subject:</b> [Sonar] Thurs. 7/2, Who's up for TEAM RACING PRACTICE/DRILLS?</font><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font><p><table><tr valign=top><td><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Hey,<br><br>Since there's no fleet races that night, who wants to work on this team
racing stuff with me that evening? Of course, six boats make an
actual team race, but with anywhere from 1 to 5 boats, we can still work
for various drills that would allow us to work on the team racing moves.<br><br>5:30 leave the dock. The practice area will be just a few hundred
yards into the bay. <br>We'd borrow 3 to 5 buoys. If starts were in the mix, somebody on one of
our boats will blow the 3-minute whistle sequence.<br><b><br>Please let me know <br> who of you is in for this, <br> who of you will bring a boat, <br> and who you'll bring with you.</b><br><br>If weather/wind doesn't cooperate, we could still do some kind of seminar.<br><br>The drills include:<br>1 boat: boat handling related to team racing, such as <br> full-speed roll tacks and roll jibes<br> down-speed roll tacks and roll jibes<br> parking for a long time, then accelerating.<br> mark-rounding nuances<br> 360s, 720s<br><br>2 boats: <br> mark traps<br> ducks, lee bows, slam-dunks, and related offense and defense<br> match-racing-like starts, i.e. dial-up, circling, and other tactical
maneuvers to gain <br>
advantage at the start<br><br>3 boats:<br> "piggy in the middle" which is where you pretend the
middle boat is on the opposing <br> team and the front boat tries to block and/or slow that middle
boat to pull his third place <br> team mate up. As soon as the positions change, the
drill continues with the new <br> middle boat as the "piggy in the middle". This
drill can happen in open water or can <br> include marks which then allows mark trap practice as well
as the open water <br> pass-backs.<br><br>4 boats:<br> The winner of a 2 on 2 team race is the team that does NOT have
the boat in last place.<br> i.e. 1-4 loses to 2-3 even though the total points are the
same.<br><br>5 boats: <br> There's an imaginary 5th place boat. I need to get
clarification on the mechanics of this <br> scheme from Blake, but it allows work on team racing tactics
and <br> maneuvers.<br><br>6 boats:<br> Obviously an actual team race is an option, but perhaps we'd start
with two 3-boat "piggy <br> in the middle" drills to warm up since that drill is especially
fruitful in learning the moves.<br><br>More than 6 boats? Could it happen? If so, we'll figure something
out.<br><br>Thanks,<br>MF</font></table><br><font size=2 face="Calibri"> </font><tt><font size=2>_______________________________________________<br>Sonar mailing list<br>Sonar@lists.wyc.org<br></font></tt><a href=http://lists.wyc.org/mailman/listinfo/sonar><tt><font size=2>http://lists.wyc.org/mailman/listinfo/sonar</font></tt></a><br><br><BR>
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